Final Fantasy XI Online

Final Fantasy XI Online is the franchise's first MMORPG as well as the eleventh installment in the main series. FFXI was the world's first cross-console MMORPG, available for Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360…

63 16 May 2002

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy Open world

Final Fantasy XI Online is an adventure developed by Square Product Development Division 3, released 16 May 2002 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 300 hrs to finish.

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What Final Fantasy XI Online is

Final Fantasy XI Online is an adventure game developed by Square Product Development Division 3 and released in 2002. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Final Fantasy XI, also known as Final Fantasy XI Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), originally developed and published by Square and then published by Square Enix as the eleventh main installment of the Final Fantasy series. Designed and produced by Hiromichi Tanaka, it was released in Japan on May 16, 2002, for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows-based personal computers in November of that year. The game was the first MMORPG to offer cross-platform play between PlayStation 2 and Windows. It was later released for the Xbox 360 in April 2006. All versions of the game require a monthly subscription to play.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer.

Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series

Final Fantasy XI Online is the 48th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Doko demo Chocobo in 2002. Its critic score of 63 is 14 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.

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How it was received

Final Fantasy XI Online holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 300 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 1,000 hrs, roughly 3.3 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Final Fantasy XI Online launched on 16 May 2002, within three weeks of Medal of Honor: Frontline, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International and Aggressive Inline. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Medal of Honor: Frontline, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International, Aggressive Inline.

Cheats and codes

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